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> Isn't Mac these days a UNIX-like OS on x86? Not exactly. Mac OS does include a BSD subsystem and behaves more like a Unix than it behaves like Windows. But i
by gilgoomesh 13y ago
> Isn't Mac these days a UNIX-like OS on x86?
Not exactly. Mac OS does include a BSD subsystem and behaves more like a Unix than it behaves like Windows. But it is still significantly it's own thing.
The Mac kernel is XNU. Nearly all Mac apps use Cocoa. The Mac filesystem is HFS+. Hardware is managed through IOKit. The list goes on but basically every major system service is written for Mac OS and does not have any direct compatibility with other OSes.